John Foulds was a significant British composer who was ignored for decades and died of cholera in 1939. This astonishing album reveals him to be the missing link between Vaughan Williams, Ravi Shankar and John Adams.

Foulds mixed romanticism with Indian quarter-tones and chromaticism in the 1890s, 60 years before the West discovered Indian music.

This is a storm of light and shade, conducted with panache by Sakari Oramo, under whose baton the City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra are the most exciting in the country.